More Microsoft/ECMA troubles with ISO

Andy Updegrove talks in his new blog entry “OOXML and ISO: Fact and Fancy” of additional problems that Microsoft and ECMA are having trying to get something else blessed by the ISO, namely the C++/CLI proposal. Fast tracking isn’t necessarily fast and sometimes gets rejected.

As I’ve said before, we’re in the middle of the end game where vendors can expect to get international standardization for what are essentially technologies they control and uniquely fully implement.